[RTTY] Cherry Picking Calls by RUN Stations

[Don Hill AA5AU]

I've never ever seen this.... never... ever...

Actually doesn't make any sense to do this.  It would take longer to make the QSO if there is more than one caller.  Dick's right -
a lot of confusion.

I now almost always send just "<carriage return/line feed>599 001 001<space>" when I'm S&P and the RUN station has my call
correctly.  No need to send my call again, the other station already knows it and has it right.  No need for me to send his call
because hopefully he/she already knows their own call.

73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ed Muns
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:05 PM
To: 'Dick Kriss'
Cc: 'RTTY Reflector'
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Cherry Picking Calls by RUN Stations

Hmmm.  Are you sure these RUN stations were just sending a report without a call sign?  Is it possible that you missed printing the
call sign.as you wer monitoring?  If you're right, then I agree, that is a an amazing, and selfish, way to operate.

Ed - P49X (W0YK)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dick Kriss
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:36 PM
> To: RTTY Reflector
> Subject: [RTTY] Cherry Picking Calls by RUN Stations
> 
> My pet peeve in the 2010 CQ-WPX-RTTY contest was RUN stations that 
> would call CQ, and rather than responding with the normal ³CALL 599 
> 123 123 CALL² or ³599 123 123 CALL² they would respond with a generic 
> ³599 123 123² then wait to see if someone would QSL and send a report.  
> They would then cherry pick from the strongest stations and respond 
> with a normal QSL and QRZ.
> 
> All this cherry picking technique did was to cause confusion as it was 
> not clear who the generic report was directed. Some of us refused to 
> send a report and would just send our calls again. The RUN stations 
> would then use a normal response.
> 
> I must be in a minority group that does not care for the generic 
> reports and cherry picking. There were several doing it and it was 
> like others started copying the technique.
> 
> I guess the technique will continue as long as powerful S&P stations 
> respond to the generic reports.
> 
> Off the Soapbox
> 
> 73 Dick AA5VU
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